The Bias Live Pedalboard Project - Files included

Some of you are aware that a few users here and at the REAPER forum and various Facebook groups have been hard at work creating the framework needed to give ridiculous amounts of control over switching, timing, reliability, convenience and utility itself between MIDI inputs and BiasFX for live use.

If you aren't into extremely tweaky micro-management and aren't a control freak with a Napoleon complex, stop reading this and go buy Gig Performer at https://www.gigperformer.com/ Gig Performer can do most of this really easily, with way less hassle on your end. For all I know it could actually do ALL of this, but I wasn't able to get it there.

So here we go. I will link the projects as we create them and hopefully edit and update any major changes so things will always work (hopefully)

IMPORTANT! Do not save this project with a Bias FX GUI open and showing. Close the FX tabs first. There's a potential bug that can happen if it loads an open Bias FX GUI on project startup

Some things to note on this project file:

This is the most basic type of project showing a proof of concept

Mute fade time can be set in preferences to shorten the switching time, and also the "tiny fade" in Live configs can be set shorter or longer. I tried to get a good medium between switching time and any clicks or pops

Again this is EXTREMELY basic, using Live Configs own routing and switching system. A much more complex crossfading plugin and script system has been made if you really hate the dropouts here

You can easily make a spillover track having delays and reverbs that will smooth the switching and let the tails play out even though the input is cut off

If people find this helpful or interesting, I'll upload some much more complex files

Now here's where things can get really interesting. By running parallel paths, you can send to tracks which never mute, allowing "spillover effects" when patches are changed.

In this case, there is a delay and reverb which, while it can have its receive cut off, will still send to the master. Say you have a Chord on the the Clean +FX tracks playing. The delay will keep going, playing clean, even though you switch over to your distorted track.

Lots and lots of different ways to do this

In this case, I have turned the send to master off on the tracks I want to send to spillover. In other cases, you may want to have both sending to master.

Gig Performer is built for live use. I personally have been using it for about 2 years on stage with my guitars (and other instruments).
You can combine your favourite plugins together. If you like BIAS AMPm but would prefer a reverb from elsewhere - you can easily do that.

Gig Performer will actually simplify your MIDI setup. You don't have to know what's being sent or do anything fancy. If you need to control a parameter within any of your plugins - just drop a knob, a slider or a button into GP, then select the plugin and press learn (this pops up the plugin's UI and you just move the parameter you want to learn a bit). You do the same now for the MIDI - press the "learn" button in the midi area and move your MIDI controller (expression pedal for example) and GP will learn that and move your widget on screen to let you know it's working and of course, modify the parameter.
this way you can streamline things and have visible only the parameters you need for a particular patch.

Unfortunately BIAS AMP 2 does not have any host automation parameters. This has been reported to PositiveGrid after the initial release, but to date it has not been fixed. This is one more reason to use GP where you can create several different amp settings and patches and switch between them instantly.

Most likely anything you really want to do can be done with GP. I also use FCB1010. I only used an FCB1010 editor to change the buttons 8 and 9 to send CC messages rather than be program change messages. There are various editors and mods available for FCB1010 - take a look at the KVR thread.https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6911475